Computer-supported calculus (Q1294949)

This is new type of Calculus book: students who master this text will be well versed in Calculus and in addition, possess a useful working knowledge of one of the most important mathematical software systems, MACSYMA. The authors claim that the symbolic and numerical calculations described in this book will be easily performed in any of the other mathematical software systems like MATHEMATICA, MAPLE or REDUCE by slight modification of the syntax. The book contains 13 Chapters followed by 4 Appendixes. Although the book deals with mainly topics in Calculus, a brief coverage of some topics from Analytical Geometry is also given in the Appendix. The mathematical software system MACSYMA is also introduced. Plenty of worked out examples are given in each Chapter. Further, each section of the Chapter contains a lot of exercises, which can be practiced. One of the advantages of the book is that the use of mathematical software system is completely integrated with the text. By selecting appropriate section of the book, the text can be used for a broad spectrum of course schedules in various curricula of mathematics, computer science etc. The book is very useful to those teachers and students who want to learn mathematical software system application in Calculus.